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Re: How to build to debug with gdb?

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Giuseppe Crino' <giuscri@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 28, 2019, 08:15 UTC
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 08:36:40PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> Try using the same build flags for the install, i.e.:
> 
>   make prefix=/usr/local DEVELOPER=1 CFLAGS="-O0 -g" install
Yes, now it works thanks!
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 08:34:23PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> That is because the command sequence above does not do what you think it
> does. Didn't you notice that everything was recompiled during `sudo make
> install`?
Shouldn't be this documented somewhere?

To my knowledge `make install` is expected to copy artifacts of the build under prefix. It's unusual to me that `install` has the `all` target as prerequisite.

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  1. Giuseppe Crino'Aug 27, 2019
  2. Matheus Tavares BernardinoAug 27, 2019
  3. Randall S. BeckerAug 27, 2019
  4. Johannes SixtAug 27, 2019
  5. Giuseppe Crino'Aug 28, 2019
  6. SZEDER GáborAug 28, 2019
  7. Giuseppe Crino'Aug 28, 2019
  8. Giuseppe Crino'Aug 28, 2019
  9. SZEDER GáborAug 27, 2019

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